Who makes a game you play? Let us meet the team. Then we will look back at an early game.

Game studios use teams to make games. The teams have designers, programmers and artists.

Making a game today is a job for people. They work together on it.

Game designers plan how a game is played. Programmers do the tech work. It makes a game's ideas work.

Artists make the pictures in a game. They make its characters, for one.

Some art is made by hand. It is made one pixel at a time. The small pictures are called sprites. Games use them.

A game has sound effects and music. People on the team work on them.

Writers help make a game's story. Game testers check a game for bugs. They check while it is made.

Atari put out the game Pong in 1972. Pong was a simple game. It had two paddles and a ball.

The first Pong machine was in a bar. It stopped working. It was full of quarters.

Easy coding tools let kids make their own games. Others who are new can use them, too.

Words to know

• designers: game planners
• programmers: code workers
• sprites: small pictures
• testers: game checkers